Gasket and seat therefor



May' 21 l929 A. .1f s'cHMrTT GASKET AND SEAT THEREFOR Filed July 12, 1928 provide metal Patented May 2l, 1929.Y

` ARTHUR J. SCHMITT, or` CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

GASKET' 'AND SEATV THEREFOR.

Application filed July 12,

y invention relates to gaskets and seats therefor, and more particularly to those gaskets used in train pipe couplings. The gasket and seat f the present invention are connected together so as toL form a unit for insertion into and removal from al coupler head, the connecting device between seat and gasket being so constructed as tov permit .one to have a limited oscillatory movementon the other. Y y In the present invention I preferably make the bodies of b oth :seat and gasket of some member of the phenol-resin group, and then liners for both seat and gasket. These metal liners furnish the connecting points by which the liner and gasket are connected together, and in the seat the liner furnishes a groove for holding the expansion ring'which secures the seat within a coupler head of a common and well known type. Also, the liner of the body of the seat is so formed that it itself furnishes the seating surface for the gasket, but the liners of the gasket and the seat preferably do not come in contact with each other.4 Y

In the accompanying drawings Fig. 1 is a longitudinal section, at somewhat more than full size, of a unit adapted to lit into a standard form of coupler head;

Fig. 2 is a similar section of the seat separated from the other parts; I' l Fig. 3 is a section on line 3 3 of Fig. 2;

' and Fig. 4 is a view of the inner face of the gasket separated from other parts.

In the said drawings, is the body of a vgasket seat, said body having an exterior shape adapting it to fit into a standard coupler head. Inside of the body 10 is a metallic liner 11, one end of which terminates in a circumferential groove 12 adapted to receive an attaching spring 13. The construction of parts 12 and 13 are Well known and require no special description.

At the other end, the liner 11 provides a cup 14 arranged to receive and support the actual seating face of the gasket 15. At the extreme end, the liner is turned over as shown at 16 to protectthe thin edgeof the body 10, and also to act as a reinforcing flange. As so constructed, the material of the bo'dy 10 vmay be thin, and the channel thru the liner may be of comaparatively large diameter. Large openings thru coupling devices are desirable, especially when train pipes are long.

In the wall of the liner 10 are cut one 0r face.y In this 192s. ,sum1 No. 292,157.

more openings. 17 and other -openings 18. The metalvfrom these last openings is bent up to form attaching lips 19. The liner 11 is formed first by the use of suitable dies, and the body 10 is body enters the openings 17and 18 and kserves to bind the body and the liner securely'together. l

Y In a similar manner, the body of the` gasket is moldedupon the liner 20, in which liner are similar openings for'binding bodyand liner together. Metal from part of these openings is turned up vto form attaching lips 21. The extreme inner end of the liner 20 is turned inward at 22 to form an inside groove corresponding in a general way to the outside groove v12. When'the gasket body 15 is molded upon the liner 20, the outer face 23 is made flat to co-operatewith the flat face of a like gasket held-in a likeseat. "The openi ing 24 is made as large as possible, consistent with the width 'of the face 23 for giving a tight joint between two gaskets.

Between the opening 24- and the opening at the far end of the liner 11, the unit is of Ylarger diameter, and in` this recess orenlarged diameter is a helical spring which acts to hold the parts of the unit together TA oFFI'c f .molded uponits eXterior surproceeding, the material of the l.

with the convex face of the gasket in intimate contact with the concave face of the seat. One

end of spring 25 is connected Vto the attachin e lips 19, and the other end is connected to the attaching lips 21. This spring is under initial tension, the degree of which maybe determined by turning' the gasket as a screw upon the seat. y

It is to be observed that the gasket kand its seat taken together form a channel, the diameter 'of which channel is not affected by the fact that the gasket is movable upon its seat. Also, that the spring which holds the two parts together so that they forma unit, permits a limited universal movement of the gasket upon the'seat without obstructing that channel. To permit this universal movement of one with respect to the other, the convex gasket and the concave surface f llU cup,` the seat and gasket members together i providing a channel the interior parts of which are of larger diameter than the terminals of the channel, and a helical spring located in the enlarged part of said channel f and having its ends secured respectively to the seat andthe gasket.

3. In a device of the class described, a seatV member 'consisting o' a body molded upon a metallic liner providing a flanged cup at one end, the liner having openings punched therein to provide binding between thebody and liner and also to provide attaching lips, a gasket member molded upon a second liner having similar openings and lips and the eX- terior of the gasket member being convex to lit said cup, and a helical spring having one end connected to a lip in one liner and the other end connected to a lip in the other liner.

4. In a device of the class described, an annular body having its exterior shaped to [it the interior of a standard coupler and its interior lined with a metallic tube furnishing a receiving cup at one end, a second annular body` having its exterior shaped to fit in said cup and a portion oit" its interior lined With a second metallic tube, and a spring se Vcuring the two' bodies together While permittingthe second body to have a universal oscillatory movement of limited exten-t Within said cup.

ARTHUR J. SCHMITT. 

